Review and Photos by Mike Bax The Iron Maidens: Five Los Angeles based women with big enough balls to take on a 14-year career emulating the almighty Iron Maiden. And, they do it in such fashion that they have garnered world-wide recognition as the finest Iron Maiden tribute band on the planet. Tonight was my…
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Interview with Marcos Leal of Shattered Sun – March 26th, 2015
Interview & photo by Mike Bax This week marks the release of Shattered Sun’s debut album Hope Within Hatred. Signed to Victory Records, the album boasts ten original songs and a wonderful Testament cover of ‘Return To Serenity’. It showcases a strong lyrical and musical prowess harkening back to the early days of thrash metal…
Testament, Exodus w Shattered Sun – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto – April 15th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Practice What You Preach, arguably Testament’s most revered album by fans proved to be an apt theme for this performance. All three bands on this bill brought their A-game to the table, and delivered an amazing evening of music, warts and all. Shattered Sun went on stage early at…
Interview with Steve Zetro Souza of Exodus – March 27th, 2015
Interview by Mike Bax Currently on a four-week run of dates with Testament and Shattered Sun, Exodus is riding on a career high at the moment with the recent release of Blood In, Blood Out, arguably the band’s finest album since the earliest material from the mid-1980s. Thrash historians all know the story of Legacy…
Electric Wizard – Lee’s Palace, Toronto – April 5th, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax (All iPhone 5S photos) While everyone in Toronto lost their minds over the über-hard-to-access Mumford And Sons concert at Lee’s Palace on Friday night, the REAL music heads were celebrating their Easter Sunday wedged into the very same venue for ANOTHER über-hard-to-get-into concert by UK doomsmith’s Electric Wizard. This…
Lieutenant w Yukon Blonde – Mod Club Theatre, Toronto April 1st, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax On this April 1st, it was no joke people filled the Mod Club Theatre early to see Canadian five-piece Yukon Blonde opening for Nate Mendel’s solo project Lieutenant. I swear I bumped into more musicians in the crowd walking towards the stage (Sheepdogs and Tokyo Police Club, I’m talking…
Testament Exodus Shattered Sun Interview – Dark Roots of Thrash II Tour April 2015
Chuck Billy, Steve Zetro Souza and Marcos Leal Discuss the Dark Roots of Thrash II Tour Interviews by Mike Bax For thrash metal fans, the upcoming April 2015 four-week run of dates featuring Testament, Exodus and Shattered Sun could very well prove to be the tour of the year, considering the three decade legacy of…
An Interview with Karl Hyde from Underworld
#TBT July 2009 Interview by Mike Bax http://www.underworldlive.com http://www.facebook.com/underworldlive twitter.com/underworldlive Back in 1994, I was passed a copy of Underworld‘s dubnobasswithmyheadman to review. After repeat listens, it became my favourite album of 1994, and remains one of my most played albums to date. Tying to articulate in a written review what Underworld sound like back in…
Torche w Nothing & Wrong – Lee’s Palace, Toronto – March 21st, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax An evening where wrong was so right, nothing was really something, and Torche blew the roof of the venue. For only twenty bucks. Saturday night was already promising to be something special with Relapse Records’ bands Torche and Nothing performing together. Even with their own signature sounds, there can…
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